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Digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas: A socio-cyber-physical system framework to support responsibilisation

Kelly Rijswijk; Laurens Klerkx; Manlio Bacco; Fabio Bartolini; Ellen Bulten; Lies Debruyne; Joost Dessein; Ivano Scotti; Gianluca Brunori

Journal of Rural Studies · 2021

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Summary

Digital technologies are often seen as an opportunity to enable sustainable futures in agriculture and rural areas. However, this digital transformation process is not inherently good as it impacts on many aspects (e.g. economic, environmental, social, technological, institutional) and their relations. The responsible research and innovation approach calls for a better understanding and anticipation of the often unknown impacts. To meet this aim we have developed a framework that allows to gain insight on the relations between the social, the cyber and the physical, i.e. a socio-cyber-physical system and have described conditions for a successful digital transformation of such a system. These are design of, and creating access to digital technologies, and navigating system complexity. This

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.05.003
Catalogue ID
NRmo9rin9c-0w2
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